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Mild Spoilers Alert!

Yeah, this sums up my feelings on Andrea pretty succinctly. As much as I've been enjoying Season 3 of The Walking Dead, Andrea's character is simply beyond intolerable to me.

I can't understand why the show's writers chose to write her character this way. Even if we need someone to make mistakes, couldn't those mistakes be more...sympathetic?

Other irritating characters have at least some redeemable quality. Lori was unpopular with many, but you could at least empathize with her predicament.

Andrea, on the other hand doesn't even feel like a real person to me. Ever since her ridiculous suicide threat and the way she treated Dale I've had it out for Andrea, but I've always been open to her finding some redemption.

Maybe that will come in the second half of Season 3. For now, her combination of hot-headededness, her badly misplaced arrogance, and the fact that she is simply a miserable judge of character makes every scene painful to watch.

If she were younger I might have more sympathy for her gullibility. As it stands, she should know better. She should place just a tiny ounce of trust in someone like Michonne who risked her own life to save her and care for her all winter long.

Then again, after her weird attraction to Shane in Season 2, her equally bizarre attraction to the creepy Governor is no surprise.

Will her revelation during the midseason finale finally pull the veil from her eyes, or will she continue shooting at friends?

All this rambling on my part, though? It's just an excuse to post the above picture in the hopes you all would chuckle audibly.